No Regrets is a sometimes humorous and irreverent look at the war in Afghanistan from a different voice and perspective -- a defense contractor. A year and half after the Twin Towers fell in New York City, the author, Dave, found himself in Bagram, Afghanistan working for KBR—the notorious Halliburton defense contractor. Over the next decade, he traveled across Afghanistan as part of the U.S.-led military campaign “Operation Enduring Freedom.” During that time, he finagled his way accounting clerk to a senior advisor and mentor for Afghan colonels and generals in the western region of Afghanistan. Shona ba Shona (side-by-side) with the Afghan police and the Coalition military forces, Dave Kaelin and the men and women with whom he worked strove to build the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) into a professional military command capable of defending and protecting the nation and the people of Afghanistan. Along the way, Dave navigates through challenging cultural minefields, sells the U.S. Army on its own programs, and finds maniacal cures for the boredom of a war zone as the military decides how to proceed with the Afghanistan drawdown...and he curses...a lot.
The author tells the tale. He leaves it up to the reader to decide what is good, bad or indiscernible.
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No Regrets is a sometimes humorous and irreverent look at the war in Afghanistan from a different voice and perspective -- a defense contractor. A year and half after the Twin Towers fell in New York City, the author, Dave, found himself in Bagram, Afghanistan working for KBR—the notorious Halliburton defense contractor. Over the next decade, he traveled across Afghanistan as part of the U.S.-led military campaign “Operation Enduring Freedom.” During that time, he finagled his way accounting clerk to a senior advisor and mentor for Afghan colonels and generals in the western region of Afghanistan. Shona ba Shona (side-by-side) with the Afghan police and the Coalition military forces, Dave Kaelin and the men and women with whom he worked strove to build the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) into a professional military command capable of defending and protecting the nation and the people of Afghanistan. Along the way, Dave navigates through challenging cultural minefields, sells the U.S. Army on its own programs, and finds maniacal cures for the boredom of a war zone as the military decides how to proceed with the Afghanistan drawdown...and he curses...a lot.
The author tells the tale. He leaves it up to the reader to decide what is good, bad or indiscernible.